Testing the Relationship Between Government Spending and Revenue: Evidence From GCC Countries

Author/Editor:

Qing Wang ; Ugo Fasano-Filho

Publication Date:

November 1, 2002

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

The paper examines the direction of causality between total government expenditure and revenue in oil-dependent GCC countries by utilizing a cointegration and error-correction modeling framework, and by calculating a variance decomposition analysis. In addition, it presents impulse responses to shed light on the dynamic relation of expenditure to a revenue shock. The results confirm expectations that government spending follows oil revenue, suggesting a pro-cyclical expenditure policy to variations in oil revenue. To make budget expenditure less driven by revenue availability, the authorities could resort to a medium-term expenditure framework, so that expenditures can be planned and insulated from volatile short-term revenue availability.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2002/201

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

November 1, 2002

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451874365/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA2002201

Pages:

27

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